Contractor

Jendoco Construction

Architect

GBBN

Owner's Representative

Dunham REGroup

The Space

Internationally recognized and celebrated arts, events and community education center located in Pittsburgh's historic Lawrenceville neighborhood.

Contemporary Craft’s mission is to honor diversity, build community and provide support for local artists. It relocated from its prior home in The Strip District in 2019 and began work on renovating this space, a former trophy and plaque manufacturing facility, in 2020.

Keeping sustainability top of mind throughout the project and beyond, the organization’s leadership chose energy efficient lighting, heating and ventilation systems, along with salvaged, reclaimed wood for furniture and doors, as well as for hardware and signage, allowing the building to achieve LEED Silver certification. Doors Unhinged provided high-quality, reclaimed doors and hardware for the center’s exhibition, studio, office and support rooms. In doing so, Contemporary Craft diverted ~1 ton of materials from the waste stream, avoided generating another 1 ton+ of CO2 emissions that result from new manufacturing, met its goal of creating a sustainable building and stayed on budget throughout the project.

"Contemporary Craft’s construction design goal was to create an artistic and sustaining facility that will minimize the project’s environmental footprint with careful material and product selection. We are so thankful that we were introduced to Doors Unhinged and had the opportunity to work with them for our facility project. Doors Unhinged was very engaged in the process from the beginning and offered many useful suggestions based on our operational needs; even after the project was completed, the post-project customer service was excellent. You won't find a more conscientious, reliable and responsive team to take on the project to furnish a commercial building with high-quality reclaimed doors and materials."